Category Archives: Separation

Whether you’re about to head into mediation for your divorce, or you just recently separated and you’re starting the mental, physical and logistical preparations for mediation, here is a powerful idea that can save you time, heartache, and frustration: invent options. What do we mean by “invent options,” and how might that strategy help? In…

Whether you are about to head home for your 20th high school reunion or you’re meeting with an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend for coffee, you might be feeling embarrassed about the troubles you’ve been having in your marriage. Perhaps you’ve already decided to separate – or your spouse decided to separate from you – and you…

You need solid insight into your current financial, psychological and legal state to move the divorce process forward strategically. If you don’t know how much money you have in the bank, for instance, how can you plan your financial future, post-divorce? If you don’t know how to protect your children, legally, during the divorce, how…

Whether you and your wife just separated a few days ago, or you have been struggling with some complex family law situation that would take longer to summarize than we have space in this blog to print, you are probably focused exclusively on what’s going to happen in near future. In the near term, how…

In the aftermath of a divorce or separation, you or your spouse may decide to move far away to start a new life. Perhaps, for instance, you might want to return to your hometown to meet your parents or other close relatives. Or maybe your spouse may want to leave the state to be with…

The “back to school” boom is just a few weeks away for children who begin classes in early August. If you’re a parent who recently separated from your spouse, you face some peculiar “back to school” challenges as well as opportunities. Let’s discuss them. 1. You should have (much) more time to yourself. When your…

As summer kicks into full gear, people around you may be going to the pool, playing in the park and having barbecues. But your family has been focused on dealing with a divorce. As summer winds down over the next few weeks, your kids will have to go back to school. Their return to school…

Life is fluid. Just because you had trouble in your last relationship – for whatever reason – does not mean that you are doomed to repeat your problems in future relationships or that you can’t grow from the experience. The big question that you need to ask yourself is: what can I do next time…

You’re trying to get to the truth about what led to your separation. What part, if any, did you play in breaking the relationship, and what you can do going forward to avoid reliving your mistakes? Here are some more tools/resources that you can use to move beyond the limiting “just so” stories that you’ve…

What really happened to cause your divorce or separation, why, and what can you do about it? These questions are deep. It may seem hard to even to begin to know how to answer them. But here are some tools that you can use. 1. Journal Write down and answer questions in your journal about…

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